*New Order" Aims Tokyo, May 2.
Keen appreciation of "the sym: pathetic understanding and will support extended to Japan by Ger many and Italy, as ce-signatories of the anti-Comintern Pact, in connection with the China Incident since its very beginning" was expressed today by Baron Keichiro Hiranuma, the Premier, in addressing the annual conference of Provincial Governors, It was urgently necessary, he declared, to draw still closer the bonds of ce-operation among the signatories of the anti-Comintern Pact.
An urgent task before Japan, he continued, was to attain "a satisfactory settlement of the China Incident. concerning which Japan's basic policy tas already been formulated and enunciated from time to time."
Baron Hiranuma re-affirmed Japan's grim determination to construct a new order in East Asia, with a view to establishing lasting stability in this part of the world."
Neighbourly ce-operation among Japan, Manchoukuo and China in the political, economic and cultural fields. he declared, was essential for the successful discharge of "Japan's mission."
China Must "Reconsider"
Japan," continued the Premier, "desires China to reconsider her anti-Japanese attitude and to do her share in the construction of a new order in East Asia, At the same time, Japan wishes third Powers to endeavour to understand her policy and objective, and positively to participate in the construction of a new order in East Asia, commercially, financially and technically."
Surveying the Chinese situation, Baron Hiranuma observed "with gratification" that there were many Chinese "who are ready to share Japan's pleasures and pains, and who seek a re-birth of their own country."
At the same time, he said,/the new regimes in various parts óf China were developing smoothly:
Turning to domestic affairs, the Premier emphasized the necessity of securing national defence to cope with the delicate international situation, "especially since the China Incident has entered into the stage of long-range reconstruction and rehabilitation."
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